Washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

G. L. VITSIL, OI" 'ILHINGTON, DEIUUVARE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

15e it known that I, (bionet: L. lVrisiL. of the city of Vtlilniington, in the State of Delaware, have invented a new and useful WashingAMaehine; and I do hereb5Y declare that the ollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makingr a part of this epeeiication, in which-- Figure, l is a perspective view. Fig. a section through the center.

A, is the tub with its Corrugated sides or ribbed surface.

B is the corrugated or ribbed center piece which revolvee in the act of washing.

C is the cross piece which holds the center piece in its place being attached to the uprights (l which are fastened to the Staind I) which holds the tub in place.

w is the false bottoni; the space between it and the bottom of the tub g.

/1 ie the lever or arm which moves the center piece and by which the whole thing is operated and is the gudgeon upon which the axis of the center piece revolves.

The tub being filled with water and the clothes placed therein` by rotating` the cylinder or center piece B to and fro or haltI way around and back again the clothes are Subieeted to a process as near that obtained by hand as can be imagined. The peculiar shape of the tub with the corrugated sides or ribs; corresponding. prevents hard rubbing of the articles washed and still in a few 22,764, dated January 25, 1859.

minutes thoroughly clcanseeI thein. The clothes` can never pai-k or wedge in this tub and consequently will not wear as nineh in washing as in other machines. l have one in operation and find that it works to a rfharin satisfying the. washerwcunan who bet'ore was as inrorrigjible in her dislike lo niaehine washing` as could be.

011e peculiar fature of this lnarhine is that it plaits the clothes and roll theni in the forward niotion and in the bat'kward motion reverses the plait and roll. and the linenY goods can be washed without damage.

I do not claiin the shape ot the tub nor do I elailn the corrugated enrl'acee. neither do I claini the passing' thc clotheel between the two surfaces, one being a cvlinder and the other the surface ot' the tub. for I ani aware that the ribbed surface have been used long ir Since and that V. l. Stewart has alread)Y (June` 24. [95(3) patented a machine having a ribbed cylinder revolvingin proximityY to a eoneare board between which the artieles in washing' pase. but

IVhat l claim as n| \Y invention and desire to secure b v Letters; Patent The combination of the corrugated or tinted conical cylinderplaced i'ertieallwgwith the Corrugated or tinted aides oi' the conical tub arranged and operated as shown and described for the purpose specified.

GEORGE Il. IITSIL VVitnesees IVM. I3. IIVIGGiNs, Hunan MCCALL. 

